dromond

dromond

English

Noun

dromond (plural dromonds)

1. Alternative form of dromon
   • 1868-1870, William Morris, The Earthly Paradise

     the great dromond swinging from the quay

   • 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

     The name of the ship was Dawn Treader. She was only a little bit of a thing compared with one of our ships, or even with the cogs, dromonds, carracks and galleons which Narnia had owned when Lucy and Edmund had reigned there under Peter as the High King, for nearly all navigation had died out in the reigns of Caspian's ancestors.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dromond in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)